Obama Govt Offers $1.12m To Italian Family Killed In Drone Strike

United States have agreed paying $1.12 million to the Italian family who were killed last year in a drone attack.

37-year-old Giovanni Lo Porto and 73-year-old Warren Weinstein were held hostage in an al-Qaeda compound and during a secret counter-terrorism mission the two were killed.

Porto was Italian and Weinstein was an American citizen.

President Barack Obama admitted two aid workers were killed last year in a CIA drone attack. Before the strike the Porto’s family were informed release from the militants group hold will soon occur.

Such agreement between US and family of a drone strike victim has never been seen earlier. Italian newspaper La Repubblica first reported about the payment considering it to be a donation to the family in memory of Porto.

Since 2008 thousands of people have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen, but never the Obama government offered money to the families of the victims. Several attempts have been made to challenge the policy of the US government and seek justice.

In 2015 a civil engineer from Yemen, Faisal bin Ali Jaber, issued a public challenge to Obama for refusal of acknowledgement to deaths of civilian in drone strikes.

Jaber said two of his relatives were killed in 2012 drone strike. Yemeni security service official offered him $100,000 in a plastic bag that he refused to accept. On questioning the whether the money came from Obama government he was told to take the money and don’t know from where it came.